Sometimes there are fleeting moments where we have to decide whether to let them go or to explore. Last week I went to Los Angeles for a work trip. I had no idea when I walked into my client meeting at 11:30 a.m. that one of my fellow coworkers in sales would steal my heart. He had these amazing blue eyes and was just adorable. I couldn’t stop looking over his way during the meeting. Later that evening, I found out he felt the same way. I stepped out of my comfort zone and told him that my rep and I were staying the night at The Beverly Hilton and that he should come out to dinner with us. There were two other sales guys but one was married and one was jetting out the door so I didn’t bother with them. Lo and behold, lets call him “LA Guy,” did! I just kind of took these feelings with a grain of salt.

Dinner and drinks consisted of two sales guys, myself and my high school friend. It was a really fun group. My high school friend who lives in the area was trying to set LA Guy up with her friend. I kept my interests at bay because I technically am dating someone back in NYC, although was already mentally checking out of that relationship. We started with drinks at Bar Bouchon and then went to Sugarfish for dinner (these places are all in Beverly Hills, not far from the hotel). There was a point at Sugarfish where I just completely gave into my crush and childishly played footsies.

The rest of the night, definitely not a blur but definitely full of vodka, was full of shameless flirting on both parties. Me and my sales guys went back to the hotel bar after dinner, then Uber’d back to the area where we had dinner for drinks at Nic’s Martini Lounge, then back to the hotel back for another drink which ended up be taken back to my room with LA Guy. He was so cute throughout the night, trying to kiss me. I tried to not let it happen in front of our other coworker as that was just uncomfortable for me. He just recently got married so I don’t think he minded if we were making out anyway!

We didn’t hook up in my room that night. We just made out and such. 😉 He called our company’s travel agency to try and change my flight to stay the weekend. $1600 was a hefty fee. He told the woman on the phone we were in love but it definitely didn’t help, sadly. We cuddled all night and then in the morning definitely hooked up, a few times. There were just moments where our eyes met and the fact that there wasn’t a drunken hook up was ideal, because when he said “I like you,” I knew it wasn’t the vodka talking. He tried to change my flight again that morning but no luck. He left around 10:30 a.m. (we definitely should’ve been working by then as it was Friday lol). He texted me in a few minutes that he missed me, he told me not to get on my flight and was what I feel genuinely adamant about me staying. I prayed my flight got canceled because of the snow back in NYC, but of course just the flight AFTER mine got the luck of the draw in my opinion.

This was Friday and we have been texting, sending voice messages and pictures since. I;m kind of stuck in my heart because I want to give this a chance. I want to go back to Los Angeles and explore our fleeting moment. He definitely wants me to as well and I was looking at his birthday weekend for next month.

I know this is wild and my feelings are just stuck in the moment but there was a connection when our eyes met that I haven’t felt before. It wasn’t just the sun and the warmth the city had to offer. It was a magical and romantic connection between the two of us. I definitely feel like I left my heart in Los Angeles.